The 2011 Man Booker shortlist is due to be announced at around 11am this morning. Naturally - naturally! - we'll bring you the news as soon as we have it, but meanwhile, to pass the weary hours until then, how about a quick round of speculative shortlisting?

Of these, I didn't love the Hollinghurst, to be truthful: the interesting part of it - the questions of truth and memory that underpin the narrative - seems to me to have been tackled more movingly by AS Byatt, among others. But I'd still be surprised to see it omitted. I really enjoyed On Canaan's Side, and might go so far as to put a tenner on it to win, were I a betting woman. The Sense of an Ending is excellent but slim - but if On Chesil Beach made the Booker shortlist, why not this? Of the others, we're obviously fans of Pigeon English over here at the Guardian, I have it on good authority (Claire's Armitstead's) that Jamrach's Menagerie is deserving of a shortlist spot, and I really like the sound of Snowdrops.

So there it is - my stab at a shortlist. What's yours? A book from our cupboards to whoever gets closest!